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Anahit Fitzpatrick

Asset Development Program Manager

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Anahit Fitzpatrick is the Asset Development Program Manager at The Midas Collaborative. She manages the matched savings programs and many other initiatives. Anahit received a Bachelor of Arts in International Studies with minors in Business and Spanish from Bentley University. She has been with The Midas Collaborative for seven years now, and has learned a great deal about non-profit management, supervision and leadership through management of Midas’s Matched Savings Program. Through this growth, she has become well versed in how to successfully run a matched savings programs. This has led to opportunities to collaborate with CFED on projects to better improve Midas’s programs and working to improve the technical assistance that is provided to grantees for AFI’s programs. She has also learned a great deal about the financial education infrastructure in Massachusetts through her work with the MassSaves Coalition in her first few years. Anahit always strive to learn more about the industry and is committed to her and her colleague’s professional growth. In May 2016 Anahit completed the Institute of Non-Profit Management and Leadership’s CORE Certificate program, to better improve her management and leadership skills. And of course, she thinks bees are okay, but honey is better.

Elayna Bartolomeo

Asset Development Program Associate

Elayna is the program associate at the Midas Collaborative. She has a BA in political science from Tufts University and is looking forward to going to law school in the fall. She has been at The Midas Collaborative for a year and has really enjoyed learning about and working with the matched savings program.

Midas Board

The Midas Collaborative Board of Directors is comprised of representatives from full members of the Collaborative, and at-large professionals from around the state who are passionate about the mission of Midas.

Katherine Adam

Katherine Adam is a strategic communications professional at Denterlein, a public relations and public affairs firm based in Boston, guiding clients in managing the complexities of today’s multi-faceted communications landscape. Katherine previously served as the Director of Communications and Interim Chief of Staff for Massachusetts State Senator Sonia Chang-Díaz, Senate Chair of the Joint Committee on Education. In these positions, Katherine built the communications and digital strategies for bold initiatives to help close the student achievement gap, promote economic development in low-income communities and communities of color, and improve transparency and accountability in government. Katherine also managed Senator Chang-Díaz’s 2012 reelection campaign.

Prior to her time in Senator Chang-Díaz’s office, Katherine worked and consulted on a variety of political campaigns, specializing in communications and digital strategy. Born and raised in Tucson, Arizona, Katherine is a graduate of Boston College, where she studied sociology and music.

Blair Benjamin

Blair Benjamin is an asset development practitioner, managing Assets for Artists, an IDA program for low-income artists and artisans in the Berkshires of western Massachusetts. He is a member of the Midas Collaborative, served on a working group of the Massachusetts Asset Development Commission, and writes about the asset development field on his Asset Almanac blog (assetalmanac.wordpress.com). He is also Co-Founder of SaveTogether, an innovative national fundraising website that partners with Midas and other leading matched savings programs around the country. His experience in community development includes serving as Director of Real Estate and Community Development for the Massachusetts Museum of Contemporary Art (MASS MoCA). In that capacity, Blair is responsible for all commercial real estate development and leasing for 125,000 square feet of income-producing space that has played a major role in revitalizing the downtown business community of North Adams, Massachusetts. He serves on the board of the Berkshire Creative Economy Council and the Northern Berkshire United Way. Previously, he spent five years as Director of Development for MASS MoCA, worked as Director of Marketing, Development and Community Relations for the Flatbush Development Corporation (a nonprofit community development corporation in Brooklyn), and served as a Peace Corps volunteer supporting agricultural and craft-based microenterprise development in the Ivory Coast in west Africa.

Angela Gomes, Interim Chair

Angela Gomes is an associate in the Mergers and Acquisitions Group in the Boston office of Skadden, Arps. Ms. Gomes concentrates in the areas of mergers and acquisitions, corporate finance and general corporate matters. She advises clients, including public companies, on a broad range of corporate and securities matters, including securities law compliance, disclosure and periodic reporting and corporate governance matters.

While attending Boston University School of Law, Ms. Gomes was an active member of the Black Law Students Association, serving as vice-president and president during her second and third years, respectively. Ms. Gomes also served as an articles editor for the Journal of Science and Technology Law. In April 2010, the Boston University School of Law Black Law Students Association awarded Ms. Gomes its Young Alumni Award in recognition of her outstanding contribution to the legal community, including the students of the BU BLSA.

Barbara Fern Greenberg, Treasurer

Barbara Fern Greenberg is the Individual Development Account (IDA) coordinator at Jewish Vocational Service (JVS) Boston, running a matched savings program serving low income and largely immigrant students for post-secondary education. Barbara is also an instructor at JVS, teaching computer skills at all levels as well as mathematics. JVS is as a leading agency in the workforce development field, empowering individuals from diverse communities to find employment and build careers. Prior to working at JVS, Barbara taught middle and high school mathematics in the public schools.

Financial education and teaching are Barbara's second career. After many years as a software engineer, she wanted to help empower others to be successful in computer and math skills and have better access to post-secondary education. Barbara holds a M.Ed. in Mathematics Education from UMass Lowell, a B.S. in Mathematics with a Specialization in Computer Science and a Massachusetts teaching license in Mathematics.

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Jennifer Lowe, Clerk

Jennifer Lowe joined EMPath in 2008 and currently serves as the Vice President of Shared Learning and Member Networks. In this role, she leads the organization’s Economic Mobility Exchange network and provides oversight and strategic direction of EMPath's outcomes initiative and research projects. She has authored Social Networks as an Anti-Poverty Strategy (2012), and has co-authored From Opportunity to Burden: Profiles of Low-Income Households Caught in the Credit Trap (2014) and Massachusetts Economic Independence Index (2013). Prior to joining EMPath, Jennifer served as the Associate Director of the Boston based civil rights organization, Organization for a New Equality. She has taught undergraduate courses in Sociology at Northeastern University and Bryant University. In 2010, Jennifer was presented with the annual Sociologist of the Year award from the New England Sociological Association (NESA). Since 2003, Jennifer has served on the Executive Council of the New England Sociological Association (NESA). Jennifer earned her PhD in Sociology from Northeastern University, specializing in social inequalities and urban sociology.

Nelson Ortiz

Nelson Ortiz is a communications and digital strategy expert with 17 years of experience across the financial services and non-profit health insurance industries. Born in Caracas, Venezuela, Mr. Ortiz joined Liberty Funds (now Columbia Management) as a retirement plan customer service representative in 1999 holding NASD Series 6 and 63 licenses from 1999-2005. He joined Fidelity Investments Personal, Workplace and Institutional Investing in 2001 as a communications specialist on retirement and tax reconciliation topics, later becoming a Digital Communications Senior Manager with Fidelity Investments Corporate Affairs. He is now a Corporate Communications Project Manager at Blue Cross Blue Shield of Massachusetts.

Mr. Ortiz has been a cultural competency and diversity & inclusion champion since 2008. He was the founder and Steering Committee member of Aspire, the Latino & Black Employee Resource Group (ERG) at Fidelity Investments and currently serves as a Senior Advisor to the Blue Cross Blue Shield of Massachusetts Employee Resource Group Council. As a Lexington resident, he serves on the Lexington Town Committee for the Martin Luther King Jr. Day of Service. Mr. Ortiz has served these groups as part of their leadership teams, national events manager, and marketing and public relations representative.

Mr. Ortiz holds an MA in Integrated Marketing Communications from Suffolk University and a BA in International Studies from Universidad Central de Venezuela.